Email: khalid.medani@mcgill.ca

Tel. +1-514-398-3586 (office); +1-514-504-7132

Khalid Mustafa Medani is an associate professor of political science and Islamic studies at McGill University. He has published extensively on the political economy of Islamic fundamentalism and civil war in Sudan and the issue of the war on terrorist finance and informal banking in Somalia, including "Black Monday: The Political and Economic Dimensions of Sudan's Urban Riots," in Middle East Report Online, August 9, 2005. His research interests include the relationship between economic globalization, political Islam and civil conflict in the Middle East and Africa, Islamic finance and state collapse.